My work on the Czerepak Framework is an effort to look back as far as possible to find the rhymes of the history of systems and out of it has come the following:

Trivergent Thinking

Freedom and Fiat

Divergent Thinking

Future and Flow

Univergent Thinking

Function and Form

Convergent Thinking

Fruition and Fulfillment

I have adopted the above process for my company, Cognitary, Inc., and call it “Cognitary Stratus”. It is both a methodology and, when extended to additional dimensions, a framework for designing a system.

My usage of the root “verto” with the prefixes “tri-“, “di-“, “uni-” and “con-” are intended to create new terms to deal with a four dimensional perspective (not three) of systems. The eight sub-forms of thinking correspond to the eight interrogatives:

Why: Freedom

Who: Fiat

When: Future

Where: Flow

How: Function

What: Form

How Much: Fruition

How Many: Fulfillment

These rhymes and sub-rhymes are the stratus of all systems and all systems design. Together they are the basis of Cognitary Stratus.